Welcome to the Birmingham branch.
We meet at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, King Edward Sq, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6AB on the third Saturday of every month at 2.00pm.
We have our own website: The Western Front Association (Birmingham Branch) where you will find the programme of events, contacts, newsletter and branch business.
Upcoming Branch Events
'Panama & The Great War. The Panamanian Medal of Solidarity' with Giles Penman :
Giles Penman will be giving a talk on Panama & The Great War. The Panamanian Medal of Solidarity
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'The Genesis of the Imperial War Graves Commission' with Dave Wright
Rudyard Kipling referred to the Imperial War Graves Cemeteries as the largest undertaking since the Pharaohs. It is easy to see these great cemeteries as the logical outcome of the war. Such was far from the case. Looking at the very different memorials of other nations and the resistance the triumph of the Commission's vision is astonishing. How…
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'9th Battn KOYLI in the Great War' with Dr. Derek Clayton
The 9th (Service) Battalion of the KOYLI was born out of the patriotic rush to answer Lord Kitchener’s call to arms in the early autumn of 1914 and was constituted as part of the Third New Army (K3), becoming part of 21st Division. The battalion arrived on the Western Front a year later and underwent an inauspicious baptism of fire at the Battle o…
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